CVE-2021-44216

Exp

Northern.tech CFEngine Enterprise before 3.15.5 and 3.18.x before 3.18.1 has Insecure Permissions that may allow unauthorized local users to access the Apache and Mission Portal log files.

Published: 2022-03-10 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2021-44216 is rated Exploit Available (50/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.06%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2021-44216

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2021-44216

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-11-21 0.03% 0.06% +0.03%
2 2025-11-18 0.06% 0.03% -0.03%
3 2025-08-14 — 0.06% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2021-44216

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.5 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:L)
They already need access on the box, or another person has to do something wrong; it’s not a remote drive-by.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:H)
Serious risk that confidential data gets exposed in a big way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 1.8 3.6 [email protected]
2.1 2.0 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:L)
Requires local access to the target system.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 3.9 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2021-44216

OS Trackers for CVE-2021-44216

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2021-44216: 1 source package rows (cfengine); 2 state rows across 2 repos (3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 0, open 2. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2021-44216
suse low CVE-2021-44216 severity low: SUSE including 7 source package names (cfengine, cfengine-3.21.0-17.3.1, …), 7 product×package rows across 2 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Advanced Systems Management 12, SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 SP5): Fixed 4, Known Not Affected 3. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-44216/

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2021-44216

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
northern.tech cfengine < 3.15.5 cpe:2.3:a:northern.tech:cfengine:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
northern.tech cfengine >= 3.18.0, < 3.18.1 cpe:2.3:a:northern.tech:cfengine:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*

References for CVE-2021-44216

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